This week in our round-up of must-read posts: While celebrating 14 years, CaBi continues to raise the bar in ridership. A new poll shows that a “silent majority” of MoCo voters support more housing. Arlington County is refreshing their transportation plan: share your feedback to help ensure better streets happen. Both Presidential candidates want to build more housing, but will it be where people want to live? Extreme heat is here to stay, but there is a natural cooling solution.

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Bikeshare Beat: For the fifth straight month, CaBi breaks ridership record
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by Samuel Littauer (Contributor) • October 21, 2024

Members accounted for 65.5% of all Bikeshare trips in September, underscoring the reality that CaBi is primarily a local utility rather than an amenity for tourists visiting the nation’s capital.

Montgomery County voters want zoning changes for more homes
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by Dan Reed (Regional Policy Director) • October 21, 2024

Montgomery County Democrats support proposals that make it easier to build more homes, and they’ll vote county councilmembers out if they don’t do something about high housing costs, says our new poll.

What do you want for Arlington’s transportation future?
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by Jane Green (Former Development Director) • October 22, 2024

Arlington is revising its Master Transportation Plan. Live in, or travel to or through, Arlington? Your input could help create a better plan.

Sprawl order: Presidential candidates are talking about new housing. But where?
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by Aaron Short • October 23, 2024

Recent federal action on housing supply has both positive features, like incentives for transit-oriented development, and worrying ones, like building further into federal lands and often away from job centers. The outcome of the current US presidential election could mean the acceleration of either approach, with significant implications for growth and sustainability.

In the next heat wave, cooling solutions could be waiting outdoors
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by Jackie Ostfeld • October 24, 2024

Last summer might have been the hottest of our lives, but it might also be the coolest of the rest of our lives. Various solutions feature different time horizons and approaches, but planting more trees could help preserve safe outdoor places in which people can recreate.



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